MILLS & REEVE

INTERNAL PROMOTIONS

Overall	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
	5	3	2

2006-07: Private client 1, IP 1
2005-06: Corporate 1, construction 1, real estate 1
2004-05: Employment 2, healthcare 1, insurance 1, real estate 1

LATERALS

Overall	2004	2005	2006
	4	9	0

2006-07: 0
2005-06: Corporate 3, real estate 2, family 2, healthcare 1, private client 1
2004-05: Banking 1, litigation 1, PFI 1, private client 1

Intake as percentage of partnership: 2.6

New female partners as percentage of intake: 0

Equity structure: 57 equity partners, 21 non-equity

Practice area(s) most heavily promoted: Corporate, property

*Figures supplied relate to the calendar year

Mills & Reeve is a growing firm and has been pushing its Birmingham office particularly hard in the second half of 2006-07, leading to plenty of future potential opportunities in the city. Overall the firm has made 10 internal appointments in the past three years, compared with 13 lateral hires across the full range of practice areas. But internal appointments dropped to just two, one each in private client and IP, in 2006-07.